After a well deserved break, members of the Ontario legislature have wandered back to Toronto to begin a new session of discussion.

One would assume they are happy to be back, chomping at the bit to take some steps toward solving the problems of the province.

Sooner or later there has to be an election, and all of the parties are saying what one would expect.

The Progressive Conservatives, at least according to Tim Hudak, want a vote right now. (Although given their performance in recent byelections, why is a bit of a mystery.) He says he will focus on tackling both the NDP and the Liberals because he doesn’t see much difference in the two parties.

Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberals say they realize voters are looking for change. This is stating the obvious, again, given their recent results. But Wynne maintains she is the change people want even if it’s largely the same people in power.

The NDP’s Andrea Horwath says she doesn’t have election fever (join the crowd). But Horwath says the Liberals haven’t kept the promises they made. Besides, say the NDP, they are focused on the concerns of voters.

This is mostly garbage. All of that discussion is aimed at the committed party supporters. Some would call them Kool-Aid drinkers, but I’m not going to do that — at least not directly.

Those are the ones every party has to have in line before an election is called or forced.

With less than half of all voters now turning out, those committed supporters have become even more important. Getting them to vote and making sure they vote the right way is crucial to election success.

The only way that changes is if all the disaffected voters, or at least a significant number of them, decide to step up. Maybe you fit into that category.

Perhaps you haven’t voted on the provincial level, or any other level for that matter. The only question I have for you is “Why?” Seriously, I’d like to know your reasons. I’ve heard some of them before. “My vote doesn’t count,” or “Nothing ever changes.”

But I also hear “experts” telling me people don’t have the time. I don’t buy that. Time you have, it’s motivation you require.

People tend to vote against things more than for policies they support, so it really doesn’t make any sense.

Paraphrasing Howard Beale from the old movie Network, you should be mad as hell and not prepared to take it anymore.

But most of us seem to take anything we’re given.

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Brian Bourke, a member of the 105.3 KOOL FM morning crew, can be reached by e-mail at bbourke@koolfm.com